Bird Notes and their Value 



word just quoted by which he is more 

 generally known. 



This appreciation of the value of bird 

 notes in your search and study may natu- 

 rally be followed into many other details. 



To illustrate: one can get into the habit 

 of judging the variations in key and 

 rhythmic time of this bird song and that, 

 and know them instantly by points of 

 similarity and contrast. As an example 

 here — the one-two-three ^^Bob White'' call 

 of the Quail, above mentioned, and so 

 familiar to all, is pitched generally in 

 the same tone as the notes of the Crested 

 Flycatcher, a bird not so well known to 

 many, but whom you will be quick to 

 recognize when this is remembered, because 

 his strain is altogether different in other 

 particulars. 



And again, many notes and strains will 

 become easy to differentiate if you keep 

 your ear and heart open to whatever 

 human emotions and special traits of char- 

 acter they seem to express and convey. 

 I have already discussed the Robin's notes. 



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